The all-new Volkswagen PHIDEON luxury sedan is making its global debut at the Geneva Motor Show. This innovative and luxurious four-door car is positioned above the Passat and the Magotan, which is available in China, and thus in the premium segment. The elegant new five-meter sedan will be launched on the Chinese market in the third quarter of this year.

Volkswagen’s design team is proud that it was possible to derive the PHIDEON almost directly from the breathtaking C Coupé GTE concept car, presented at Auto Shanghai in 2015, with only minor changes. From a technical perspective, the PHIDEON is the first Volkswagen to be based on the Modular Longitudinal Matrix (MLB). Its name – PHIDEON – is a construct standing for elegance and reliability, and phonetically and symbolically evokes Fides, the Roman goddess of fidelity.

The engines: turbocharged direct-injection gasoline engine with up to 300 PS

The top-of-the-range model – the PHIDEON 3.0 TSI 4MOTION, which comes with four-wheel drive as standard – is powered by a 3.0-liter V6 turbocharged and direct-injection gaosline engine that produces 220 kW/300 PS. This efficient TSI engine develops maximum torque of 440 Nm (347 lb-ft). The new five-seater Volkswagen will also be available as a 2.0 TSI four-cylinder engine with front-wheel drive. A model with a plug-in hybrid trains also planned for the future.